HIST 3333 - Antislavery Movements

Credits: 3 Class: 3 Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): 060 core-area complete.
This course focuses on the emergence of anti-slavery attitudes and political action in the Atlantic world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The curriculum explores the origins of both the antislavery and proslavery arguments through the analysis of primary and secondary texts. Students will also be exposed to the range of historical explanations for the emergence of antislavery. Themes emphasized in this course include (1) the changing views on race, labor, and colonization; (2) the political economy of abolition; (3) the shift from gradual to immediate calls for Emancipation.